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Joseph Hell

يوزف هِل

Notable figure 1875–1950 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 774; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1098 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hell, Joseph (1875-1950)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the diwan of al-Farazdaq and the Hudhali poets

Biography

He studied Oriental languages under Fritz Hommel and taught at the University of Erlangen, giving particular attention to early Arabic poetry. He edited the diwan of al-Farazdaq from the Aya Sofya manuscript (Munich, 1900), Ibn Sallam al-Jumahi's Tabaqat al-shuʿaraʾ (Leiden, 1916), and new diwans of the Hudhali poets with translation, among them Abu Dhuʾayb, Abu Khirash and al-Mutanakhkhil (1926–1933).